Journal article
Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: an embodied performance of one woman's experience
Health sociology review, Vol.33(2), pp.192-209
03/05/2024
PMID: 38820239
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Abstract
This paper uses a drama-based method to illustrate the responses of healthcare and legal systems to women experiencing coercive control. This approach involved writing a play using the first-person narrative voice of a victim-survivor. We presented the play at the Stop Domestic Violence Conference (Gold Coast, Australia) in 2021. The central character, 'Kate', provided an embodied performance that enabled the conference participants to see, feel and understand experiences of coercive control from a personal perspective. We followed the trajectory of coercive control from the beginning of an intimate relationship to the time of separation. We showed how the process of coercive control escalates from love bombing, reproductive coercion, isolation, and technology-facilitated abuse until a point of police intervention. As Kate told her story, the conference audience witnessed the barriers and challenges faced by survivors of coercive control, and the emotional, financial, and psychological impacts that are intensified in geographically remote environments. They watched Kate navigate health and other systems meant to help women experiencing domestic and family violence, but that ultimately failed to deliver. Finally, the drama-based approach allowed us to present a feminist embodiment of coercive control and an innovative method for communicating inter-disciplinary research findings on domestic abuse.
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- Title
- Healthcare and legal systems responses to coercive control: an embodied performance of one woman's experience
- Creators
- Judy Rose - Griffith UniversityToni McCallum - Charles Darwin UniversityMenka Tsantefski - Southern Cross UniversityZoe Rathus - Griffith University
- Publication Details
- Health sociology review, Vol.33(2), pp.192-209
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 18
- Identifiers
- 991013196713602368
- Copyright
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Centre for Children and Young People; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article